Leah Busque is founder and CEO of TaskRabbit. A vision for revolutionizing the way people work led Leah Busque to pioneer the concept of "service networking." Her passion for product innovation and devotion to user experience have propelled TaskRabbit into a leading role in the collaborative consumption movement. Since bootstrapping TaskRabbit in 2008, Busque has expanded the company nationally, grown the team to more than 60 employees, raised nearly $40 million in venture funding from venerated investors like Shasta Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures, and Founders Fund, and inspired legions of startups to launch in the collaborative and service networking space.

Fast Company named her one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business," and her achievements have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Time. Under her leadership, TaskRabbit has gathered accolades as a finalist in the Crunchies and Mashable Awards, and was named "The Next Big Thing in Tech" by the New York Times. Prior to founding TaskRabbit, Busque was a Software Engineer at IBM, working in the Messaging and Collaboration Software Development Group. Busque lives in San Mateo with her husband, TaskRabbit's VP of Technology Kevin Busque, and a cuddly black lab named Emerson. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Sweet Briar College, where she earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science.

TaskRabbit Founder and CEO Leah Busque tells how a need for dog food on a snowy night in Boston turned into a rapidly growing venture connecting people in neighborhoods around the country. Busque also explains the value of sharing your idea freely and the importance of cultivating an atmosphere of mentorship and collaboration.

TaskRabbit Founder and CEO Leah Busque tells how a need for dog food on a snowy night in Boston turned into a rapidly growing venture connecting people in neighborhoods around the country. Busque also explains the value of sharing your idea freely and the importance of cultivating an atmosphere of mentorship and collaboration.

Leah Busque, founder and CEO of TaskRabbit, shares statistics on the number of Americans who depend on the site for full-time work and income. She also describes how TaskRabbit empowers individuals to work on their terms and shape their own destiny.

Leah Busque, founder and CEO of TaskRabbit, explains how customers are prohibited from paying errand-runners below minimum wage, and how helpers for hire on the site set their own rate, and more importantly, are empowered to build out their own business.

Leah Busque, founder and CEO of TaskRabbit, describes how her business rapidly grew out of a hyper-local beta test: on 600 mothers in her hometown. She also discusses closely tracking customer analytics as a way to guide product development.

Leah Busque, founder and CEO of TaskRabbit, explains the value of sharing a business idea as widely as possible and recounts how doing that over dinner years ago led to a kinship with someone who provided early support and mentorship that proved vital to her startup.

Leah Busque, founder and CEO of TaskRabbit, discusses how performance metrics and customer traction were measured during seed-round fundraising. She says the key then was identifying the right metrics and figuring out how fast goals could be reached.